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When I first approach April at the Craft House in Saltaire last year about running some workshops with her neither of us anticipated how popular they would be.  We are now fully booked until June 2019 and have recently launched some new dates to take us up to the end of 2019!

So pleased to have my work included in this fantastic book featuring 50 awesome female writers, poets and artists. The book will be released in October 2018 in a timely publication that marks the centenary year of women’s suffrage.

I have been using Arches Huille paper since I first started using oil and cold wax and I love it!  But I really wanted to scale up and see what could be achieved on a larger scale using the paper and oil and cold wax.  The valley trembles is my first large scale painting using oil and cold wax on paper.

Two years ago I first heard about the artists residency at Brisons Veor in Cornwall and I knew I really wanted to go and spend the time to explore the area and paint to my heart's content. It wasn't all plain sailing though as Brisons is a pretty competitive place to get in to plus Cornwall is quite a drive from Saltaire, especially for someone who doesn't drive very often!  This is the first article of three which document my experiences of applying to and taking up a residency at Brisons Veor.

I will be back in Skipton again this year for Art in the Pen and this year I will be in Pen 48.

I had such good fun last year converting a very stinky pen into a gallery for the weekend.  Hoping to do the same again this year and show casing some new oil and cold wax paintings.

I found out that I was a finalist last summer but this has only just been published in the latest issue of the Artist's magazine.  Super chuffed to have been one of the finalists.